True Faith and Allegiance

October 31, 2016
Tom Clancy fans should welcome Greaney’s fast-paced fourth solo Jack Ryan novel (after 2015’s Commander in Chief), in which once again a small group of heroes tackles a daunting national security threat. Ryan is now president, and his son, Jack Ryan Jr., works for a covert group known as the Campus. Both are tested when an information leak leads to carefully planned hits on members of the military and the intelligence community, apparently carried out by ISIS. The proliferation and scope of the attacks somehow don’t result in widespread panic. President Ryan is able to resist pressure to respond militarily, which he believes would play into the terrorists’ hands. Meanwhile, Jack Jr., an analyst as well as a skilled field agent, races against time to forestall further loss of life by tracing the leak. Those who don’t mind major improbabilities (America’s director of national intelligence flies to Iraq to supervise an operation without notifying the president) will be more than satisfied. Author tour. Agent: Scott Miller, Trident Media Group.

December 1, 2016
Greaney is at the helm of the action-adventure enterprise built by the military maestro from Maryland (Tom Clancy Commander In Chief, 2016, etc.), this time with a devious yet believable story about radical terrorist attacks in America.Romanian hacker Alexandru Dalcu worms into a lost U.S. Office of Personnel Management file containing American security clearance applications. Dalcu's techno-skulduggery employs open-source intel "fusing legal data with an illegal theft of data and then weaponizing the results." Wanting another price-boosting oil crisis, a rogue Saudi pays Dalcu to build dossiers on key American anti-terror fighters. The Saud then sells the info to Islamic State group honcho Abu Musa al-Matari. Abu recruits "cleanskins"--radical sympathizers unknown to security services--to strike the targets within America. The who-wants-to-kill-whom is further complicated because Dalcu and ARTD, his shady employer, had been hired for spy work by the People's Republic of China, and they're out for blood too. As previously, there's a difficult buy-in: the chief protagonist is Jack Ryan Jr., son of longtime Clancy hero and now U.S. President Jack Ryan. Junior works (sans Secret Service) as an Uzi-toting operative for Hendley Associates, a private CIA-type company hiring out for blacker-than-black ops. Longtime Clancy characters like the indestructible Clark, Ding, and the president's nephew, Dominic Caruso, are also Hendley agents. Newbie "Midas" Jankowski, former Delta Force op, adds one more iron-jawed one-dimensional terminator. Action around a female Army helicopter pilot/gunner in Iraq provides an additional minor thread as Hendley operatives Gulfstream from Bucharest to the Blue Ridge Mountains and the tense, fast-paced action reels out ripped-from-headlines homeland terror attacks. A generation past Red October, the America-hating bad guys have added spyware, hacking, the dark web, and Bitcoins to those ubiquitous AK-47s.

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July 1, 2016

Along with his own popular "Gray Man" series, Greaney wrote three No. 1 best sellers with Tom Clancy, then carried on the Clancy tradition with another top-spot best seller, Tom Clancy Full Force and Effect. In this next Clancy title, the Campus is directed to hunt down the Romanian hackers responsible for a calamitous U.S. intelligence breach, but a single error lands the precious data in the hands of the Chinese. Now the risks that President Jack Ryan must take to rectify the situation will be personal.

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